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Billie Holiday Quotes
Brief author info: Billie Holiday (1915-1959) Famous american singer; toured with Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, and other Big Band greats; also appeared in such films as Symphony in Black.
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You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
And when you're poor, you grow up fast.
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice.
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A relationship is what happens between two people who are waiting for something better to come along.
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